SNAP-Barriers

Slide 1 - SNAP

Social Barriers

Social Barriers

Your

Turn

My

Experience

What is the Food Stamp Challenge?

Slide 2 - Social Barriers

Barriers are physical, mental, and social, events and thoughts that make access to services difficult to obtain. A social barrier is a way of thinking that prevents a group of people from easily obtaining services.

(Barriers to Equality)

Social Barriers:

Lack of information about program/eligibility

Concerns about application process

Bureaucratic obstacles in applying

Disrespectful treatment at the SNAP office or concern about stigma

Administrative issues, such as reporting deadlines

(Boston Medical center, 2011)

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Slide 3 - Shopping for food on a SNAP budget

Social Barriers

Watch the following videos to see the monetary barriers that people on a SNAP budget face. Note how the lack of being able to provide for their families needs can effect their emotional well being. Click the icon to link to the video. After watching the video return here to finish the activity. Press the continue button once you return.

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Slide 4 - Shopping for food on a SNAP budget

Social Barriers

Watch the following videos below to see the monetary barriers that people on a SNAP budget face. Note how the lack of being able to provide for their families needs can effect their emotional well being. Click the icon to link to the video. After watching the video return here to finish the activity. Press the continue button once you return.

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Slide 5 - Shopping for food on a SNAP budget

Social Barriers

Watch the following videos below to see the monetary barriers that people on a SNAP budget face. Note how the lack of being able to provide for their families needs can effect their emotional well being.

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Slide 6 - SNAP

Social Barriers

Social Barriers

Your

Turn

My

Experience

What is the Food Stamp Challenge?

Slide 7 - The Food Stamp Challenge

Does any of these assumptions reflect what you believe?

Social Barriers

People on SNAP Choose to eat unhealthy.

People on SNAP spend their money on expensive food that people who are not on SNAP cannot afford.

SNAP makes people dependent.

People on SNAP are lazy.

Cutting SNAP will make people get jobs.

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The Video

Slide 8 - The Food Stamp Challenge

Watch the following Video To create a better understanding of the definition of the food stamp challenge.

Does any of these assumptions reflect what you believe?

Social Barriers

Part III

People on SNAP Choose to eat unhealthy.

People on SNAP spend their money on expensive foods that people who are not on SNAP cannot afford.

SNAP makes people dependent.

People on SNAP are lazy.

Cutting SNAP will make people get jobs.

Slide 9 - SNAP

Social Barriers

Your Turn!

Social Barriers

Your

Turn

My

Experience

What is the Food Stamp Challenge?

Slide 10 - The Food Stamp Challenge!

Now it is your turn to take the food stamp challenge. In the previous activity we discussed preparing healthy meals. We also covered what foods are allowed and are not allowed on the SNAP program. You will now click the link, and go shopping for one week. Remember the object is to shop healthy on a budget. Good Luck!

Click on the shopping

bag to begin

Your Monthly SNAP Benefits

Total= $141.84/ $35.46 Wkly

After you are finished please come back into the learning module to finish this part of the activity.

Part IV

Slide 11 - SNAP

Social Barriers

Social Barriers

Your

Turn

My

Experience

What is the Food Stamp Challenge?

Slide 12 - Reflection Directions

Social Barriers

On the next slide please reflect on this activity. Answer the questions in the space provided and submit. You may continue to the next slide.

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Slide 13 - Reflections

Social Barriers

Slide 14 - Social Barriers

You Have Completed The Social Barriers Activity

Slide 15 - Social Barriers

References

Barriers to Equality. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2015, from http://www.bridgingthegap.scot.nhs.uk/discrimination-and-barriers-to-equality/barriers-to-equality.aspx